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Ursulines Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph “Proclaiming Jesus through Education and Christian Formation”

Winter 2016 Vol. 15, No. 2

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New Vocation Director New Leadership Council Member Renewal of Retreat Center Bless You, Donors

Spotlight on Whom Sisters Serve

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From our Congregational Leader Dear Family, Friends and supporters of the Ursuline Sisters, Like many of the members of our Ursuline community, I grew up on a farm. We grew all kinds of vegetables, fruit trees, berries, corn and beans for the cattle, pigs and chickens, cane for molasses and cotton to sell for income. All of these plants came from seeds. All were planted just the way our mom told us to plant them.

The knowledge of the science within the seeds didn’t Sister Amelia come until later in school when we were learning about the seed growth. We planted the seeds and wonderful vegetables grew.

In religion classes, we studied the story of the mustard seed and I could relate to the mustard seeds we had planted in our garden. They really were not as small as the ones described in the parable, but Sister Jean Gertrude said that mustard seeds in Jerusalem were different than what we planted.

In our minds, we saw these huge trees growing in the Holy Land and watched our little green spinach-like plants grow for our salads in our gardens.

It wasn’t until much later that the context of sowing seeds and faith came into focus. As we studied Scripture in the novitiate and all the classes for our education degrees, the real meaning of sowing the seeds of faith came alive. It became our mission as Ursuline Sisters and educators to share faith and knowledge around the United States and the world.

When our sisters came to the Mount in 1874, they didn’t know they would be reaching out to people all over the world. We thank God for those sisters who have come before us and the retired sisters here at the Mount. They have sown the seeds of faith in their classrooms, religion classes, RCIA instructions, Bible studies and many other areas for many years. They continue to pray for us each day as we work in our ministries. Today, many of our sisters are still doing the same as we continue to share our faith and lives in the schools, parishes and the many other places we minister.

And you are also a great part of that mission. This issue of Ursulines Alive lists the names of the wonderful people who have been so generous to our mission over the past fiscal year. You have been there with us as we were sowing those seeds. Some wish to remain anonymous but we know who you are and God knows too. We pray for you every day in our morning Mass. We cannot begin to thank you for your generous support. You have walked with us and continue to move into the future with us as we share our faith with those with whom we minister. Thank you many times over.

God bless you and those you love.

Sister Amelia Stenger, OSU, Congregational Leader Ursulines Alive is published by the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph, Maple Mount, Ky. Three issues are published each calendar year.

EDITORS: Director of Mission Advancement/Communications...... Dan Heckel, OSUA

Communications Specialist/Graphic Design.................... Jennifer Kaminski, OSUA MISSION ADVANCEMENT STAFF:

Communications and Development Specialist............... Kris Mango, OSUA

Coordinator of Mission Effectiveness............................. Sister Rose Marita O’Bryan

Coordinator of Ursuline Partnerships............................. Marian Bennett, OSUA

Director of Development................................................ Betsy Jo Mullins

Mission Advancement Assistant..................................... Sister Marcella Schrant

Mission Advancement Assistant..................................... Sister Stephany Nelson

Contributing Writer......................................................... Sister Ruth Gehres

Contributing Writer......................................................... Sister Marietta Wethington 2

COVER:

Upper Left: Sister Barbara Jean Head, center, with Dale Cecil, vice president of Business and Finance at Brescia University, and Cindy Haight, who works in student accounts at Brescia.

Lower Left: Sister Laurita Spalding, left, teaches her second-grade class at Holy Name Catholic School in Henderson, Ky., on Oct. 26. It was crazy hair and sock day for the students.

Bottom right: Sister Vivian Bowles shares a smile Oct. 20 with Kelsey Mattingly, 18, who Sister Vivian prepared for making her first Communion at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church.

OUR MISSION We, the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph, sustained by prayer and vowed life in community, proclaim Jesus through education and Christian formation in the spirit of our founder, Saint Angela Merici.

OUR CORE VALUES • • • • •

Prayer Service Empowerment Justice Contemplative Presence

...in the spirit of Saint Angela Merici

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By Dan Heckel, Mount Saint Joseph Staff

Kelsey Mattingly was baptized as a child, but others. I’ve been able to get my family members to come eventually her family stopped going to church. Now 18, to church with me. I’m working on my little sister now, Mattingly decided in 2016 that she wanted to attend she’s 16.”

Mass and make her first Communion.

Sister Mary Celine Weidenbenner “At first, I was stuck,” Mattingly said. “I wanted “Building everybody up” to go to church, but no one in my family knew the Chris Hamilton teaches math and science at Mary right answers. My grandmother attends church at St. Carrico Memorial School in Knottsville, and for nine Alphonsus, she introduced me to Sister Vivian.” years has taught with Sister Mary Celine, who teaches Ursuline Sister Vivian Bowles is director of faith religion and social studies. formation at St. Alphonsus Parish, just across the road “We know who to turn to when we want a correct from Maple Mount. Even though Sister Vivian doesn’t answer about faith, and an example of how hard someone work for the parish during the summer, Mattingly’s should work,” Hamilton said. eagerness to embrace her Catholic faith led Sister Vivian “You can tell she’s a person of faith right away. She to begin meeting with her weekly in June 2016. Mattingly wants to build everybody up,” Hamilton said. “She sings made her first Communion happy birthday in a crowded on Sept. 18, and the two room. She leaves cards for will be back together in the the teachers in our mailboxes spring so Mattingly can be during grading periods and confirmed at Easter.

Christmas. She never puts her “Sister Vivian welcomed name on it, but we know who me in and brought me to it’s from.” the Lord,” Mattingly said.

Ursuline Associate Martha “She let me know if I needed Warren took over as principal assistance or someone to talk at Mary Carrico in 2015, and to, she was there.” said the school is blessed to Mattingly’s story isn’t have one of only two Ursuline unique. Saint Angela Merici Sisters teaching full time in founded the Ursuline Sisters elementary schools in the Sister Mary Celine Weidenbenner teaches religion to to meet the needs of the seventh and eighth graders at Mary Carrico Memorial Diocese of Owensboro. times, and her sisters have School in Knottsville, Ky., on Oct. 27. BELOW: Sister Mary “She is such a spiritual been doing that ever since.

Celine is joined by teacher Chris Hamilton, left, and Martha leader in our building,” No one can illustrate how Warren, principal of Mary Carrico, right.

Warren said. “When I think those needs are being met about the Counsels of Saint better than the people who Angela, I think of her. She’s are served by the Ursuline the most humble person I Sisters or who work alongside know, joyful, a spiritual leader them. The next few issues who wants to shepherd the of Ursulines Alive will flock.” feature these pilgrims on “She just adds a great spirit the journey in articles called to the school,” Warren said.

“Whom They Serve.” This “She’s joyful about everything issue focuses on some of the and she’ll do anything. This is Ursuline Sisters ministering in her 47th year of teaching, but or around Owensboro, Ky. she doesn’t want to do the same old thing. She is one of As for Mattingly, she couldn’t be happier with what the finest teachers I’ve worked with in 32 years.”

Sister Vivian offered her.

For her students, Sister Mary Celine’s concern for “I feel like Sister Vivian always has the right answer or them outweighs her classroom instruction. can guide me. I feel like she is closer to God than most “She always knows how to get you going when you’re people would be,” Mattingly said. feeling down,” said Gavin Howard, a sixth-grader. “Every “It has been more than what I hoped it would be. It’s Friday she teaches us square dancing. She’s always joyful been life changing, I’m so glad I took this step,” Mattingly said. “I feel like the reason God put me here is to guide Continued on page 4 3

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“She involved me in the in class, and answers all our community.” questions.”

“She’s an encourager,” At the beginning of Runyon said. “The each month, Sister Mary Ursulines have the corner on Celine asks who has a the servanthood of Christ.” birthday coming up so Becky Wood, she can buy them candy, academic records database said Eli Mattingly, another administrator, worked with sixth-grader. “Once or Sister Betsy in the registrar’s twice a month after school, office. we go greet people at the “The sisters are generous Bishop Soenneker Home,” with their love and caring Sister Sister Betsy Moyer, third from left, is joined by, Mattingly said, referring to for everyone they come in from left, Darlene Runyon, Tina Wolken, Ashley Holland, the Catholic nursing home contact with,” Wood said.

Becky Wood, Morgan Manning and Mallorie Polston at Brescia across the road.

“They are the first ones University in Owensboro, Ky. “She tells us to put God out of their seats to greet first in our lives,” said seventh-grader Hunter Smith. someone. They walk their talk. You know they are going For eighth-grader Jenna McDowell, whom Sister Mary to pray for us.”

Celine is helping to prepare for Confirmation, her most Tina Wolken is a longtime associate professor of special important lesson isn’t in the classroom. education. She said all the Ursuline Sisters at Brescia “Sister always teaches us how to do the right thing,” model their faith and guide by example.

McDowell said.

“Catholicism isn’t a criterion here and there’s no attempt at conversion,” Wolken said. “The sisters are Sister Betsy Moyer professional. The jobs they have here are not out of “An encourager” kindness, they work hard. They offer support for the Mallorie Polston is a sophomore pre-candidate for the career, the personal and the spiritual. They are living, School of Education at Brescia University in Owensboro. breathing examples of Saint Angela.”

“Sister Betsy is very loving,” Polston said. “I had an important interview for the School of Education and she Sister Rosanne Spalding pulled me in her office and told me it would be OK. The “Down to earth” sisters are role models for everyone.”

When Lori Beaty was a child, Sister Rosanne was Morgan Manning, a senior in the School of Education, her catechist. Now Beaty is a teacher at the Owensboro echoed those comments.

Catholic K-3 Campus, and volunteers her time as a “Sister Betsy is like everyone’s mom in the School of catechist for religious education at Precious Blood Parish Education,” Manning said. “If you’re looking sad, she just in Owensboro, where Sister Rosanne is the director of knows.” religious education.

Manning had never been around sisters growing up “She was a big part of my religious education,” Beaty in Bowling Green, Ky. Her experience with the Ursuline said. “I think she has so much knowledge. She has always Sisters who serve at Brescia is in contrast with the been able to give me advice. I went to public school. stereotypes of sisters on TV and movies.

When I started teaching at the Catholic school, I had a lot “They’re caring, the love just pours out of them,” Manning said. “It’s not like they are preaching to you.”

Ashley Holland began as chairwoman of the School of Education in 2015, about the same time as Sister Betsy began as administrative coordinator and data manager.

“I’m not a Catholic, I had preconceived notions of the stereotype of sisters. It is so opposite,” Holland said. “She listens to understand, not to react. Whatever the sisters do, they do well. It’s a different presence. They are here for the students, the glory of God and our community. It’s like you’re never a stranger to them.”

Darlene Runyon began at Brescia in June 2016 as educational technology specialist.

“Sister Betsy and I were often the only ones on the Sister Rosanne, center, is joined by two of the catechists who help with religious education at Precious Blood floor during the summer. She made sure everything was Catholic Church: Aleta Willett, left, and Lori Beaty.

OK, always asked if I had plans for lunch,” Runyon said.

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of questions, because the little program called ‘Go Math!’ She ones have a lot of questions. had to completely relearn how Sister Rosanne deepened my she taught math, but she said understanding so I could teach. ‘yes’ to that. She said her ‘yes’ a I did religious education at long time ago to Christ, and she another parish, it just wasn’t the continues to repeat that ‘yes.’” same.”

Patricia Wilson is a second Aleta Willett is also a grade teacher and teaching catechist at Precious Blood, and partner with Sister Laurita. was taught by Ursuline Sisters “This is her 49th year, people as a child. might think that she’s in a rut,” “She has answers for Wilson said. “But she is always everything. If she doesn’t looking for innovative activities, know, she’ll find it,” Willett and she’s not afraid to try new Sister Laurita Spalding, second from left, is said. “She’s always there for the things. Whatever it takes to help joined by Lyndsay Koonce, left, Patricia Wilson, parents. All these kids get to her students.” second from right, and Kamille Stich, right, at Holy experience her one on one.”

“What I’ve learned from her Name School in Henderson, Ky. Father Suneesh Mathew, is to keep working, even on days HGN, became pastor of Precious Blood in July 2016, and that I’m so tired,” Wilson said. “She reminds me that it is has been impressed with Sister Rosanne. about the students.”

“She’s very people-oriented, very down to earth and Stich is responsible for boosting enrollment and funny,” Father Mathew said. “People love her. If you support for Holy Name, and having a sister teaching at know more people, you are a better minister.” the school benefits those efforts.

“I think people feel more open in dealing with a “Our incoming parents want to know if we have a religious sister,” Father Mathew said. “They feel more of a religious here,” Stich said. “I’m so happy to say ‘yes.’” closeness, a sharing.”

Sister Margaret Ann Aull Sister Laurita Spalding “Noticing others” “Always welcoming” Sister Margaret Ann visits the sick and takes Sister Laurita has taught at Holy Name Catholic Communion to members of Parish of the Immaculate in School in Henderson since 2000. Lyndsay Koonce met Owensboro who are homebound, in nursing homes or her during her first year as the guidance counselor in assisted living facilities. She does much more than that, 2015, and made an instant connection. according to two of the people she visits.

“She’s very funny and always in a good mood,” “She notices me, talks to me,” Jean Howard said from Koonce said. “She had a student with difficulties in her her assisted living facility at One Park Place. “I love seeing class, so I got called to her classroom often. This was a her. She’s never in a hurry, like I’m a special person. That trying student, but you would have never known that makes me feel good. It means a lot for her to bring me the from her. She just loved on him and tried to make it Eucharist.” better. She was so great.”

Louise Stinger gets a weekly visit at her home in “She brings patience, kindness. She is so welcoming,” Owensboro.

Koonce said. “No one can better prepare these students in “It means a lot. religion than she can.”

I don’t know what Kamille Stich, president of Holy Name, said having a I’d do without her,” woman religious in the school is critically important to Stinger said. “I was connect the school with its mission and history. sick for a while and “We were served by Sisters of Charity and Ursuline no one knew it, no Sisters, we would never have survived without their one came by. She’s influence,” Stich said. “We talk about our instructors made me feel so being ‘soul crafters’ and I think Sister Laurita embodies good. She brings that. She loves children who are hard to love at times.” me back to life. I Sister Laurita’s selection as Catholic Educator of the look forward to her Year for the Diocese of Owensboro in 2014 wasn’t made talking to me.”

Sister Margaret Ann Aull lightly, Stich said.

Receiving prepares to give Communion to Jean “A study came out a few years ago that children needed the Eucharist Howard in Jean’s room at One Park to move more in the classroom. She was on the cutting is important to Place. Jean is a member of Parish of the Immaculate in Owensboro, where Stinger, and she feels edge of letting children sit on a yoga ball in class, she Sister Margaret Ann ministers. welcomed that,” Stich said. “We adopted a new math Continued on page 6

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Sister Margaret Ann Aull, left, visits with Louise Stinger in Louise’s home in Owensboro.

Sister Margaret Ann brings her the Eucharist once a week.

fortunate having a sister bring it to her.

“It seems like they are closer to God,” she said. “They give their lives to God.” Sister Mary Timothy Bland “Spirit of serenity” Sister Mary Timothy retired in May 2016 after 50 years as an elementary teacher, but has continued to substitute teach this school year at the Owensboro Catholic K-3 Campus.

“I love Sister Mary Timothy. As soon as you get to know her, you know she is something different,” said music teacher Heather Hayden. “Her mark is definitely here.

Her calmness, the appearance of an Sister Mary Timothy Bland inner serenity. When helps a second-grade student with anyone else was handwriting on Oct. 25 at the flustered, she would Owensboro Catholic K-3 Campus. keep up the example She was substitute teaching for that I would want to Carolyn Taylor’s class. be.”

“I think we’ve been blessed to have a sister at our school,” Hayden said. “So blessed for the children and the faculty to see that vocation. It’s a tradition that I fear is getting lost.”

Kim Riney, a first grade teacher, said it’s great for the

children to see a sister in the classroom.

“She has a wonderful calmness, a life-affirming presence,” Riney said. “She’s so Christlike. I’ve never seen her in a bad mood. She never says ‘no.’”

Lori Whitehouse is principal of the school and values her students having the opportunity to interact with a sister.

“Sister Mary Timothy shows the children that she is just like everyone else, except that her ‘job’ and vocation is in service to the Catholic Church,” Whitehouse said.

“When I found out Sister was going to retire, I knew she would leave behind a void that would be hard to fill,” Whitehouse said. “The fact that she is substitute teaching at the K-3 Campus is truly a blessing. Sister Mary Timothy brings so much to the religion curriculum.

Her devotion and faith come shining through.”

Sister Barbara Jean Head “Educating for the future” Sister Barbara Jean has no classroom at Brescia University, but the senior accountant is still an educator.

“She educates the students, especially when students have trouble paying their bills,” said Cindy Haight, who works in student accounts. “She talks about the choices they make. Her patience, her understanding, help her deal with students going through a difficult time. She ministers to them, she’s a sounding board for them. I’ve heard her offer prayers for them.”

Sister Barbara Jean attends events and athletic competitions on campus, Haight said. “She’ll tell the students they did a great job last night. She eats lunch in the dining halls and talks to the students,” Haight said.

“She makes them feel welcome.”

Dale Cecil, vice president of Business and Finance at Brescia, said Sister Barbara Jean is a huge asset to the university.

“She cares for the students, not just giving them what they need, but in a way to educate them for the future,” Cecil said. “She teaches them to learn responsibility.”

Having Ursuline Sisters serving at Brescia is an important part of the school’s mission, Cecil said.

“We wouldn’t be here without the Ursulines,” Cecil said. “It’s ingrained in them in a way we can’t duplicate.

I’m Ursuline educated and have close ties to the Mount.

But I don’t think anyone can feel for Brescia the way an Ursuline can.”

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Sister Mary Timothy Bland, second from left, is joined by the principal of the Owensboro Catholic K-3 Campus, Lori Whitehouse, left, and teachers Heather Hayden, second from right, and Kim Riney, right.

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in the late 1990s with Sister Fran Wilhelm in her ministry with Centro Latino near Owensboro, Ky. At the time, the ministry served mostly male Hispanic migrant farm workers, and Paez helped with health fairs that Sister Fran organized.

“The ministry changed to meet Associate every need possible,” Paez said. “Connie Charlotte Paez (Caceres) and Allen (Shreve), they all pitched in. They translated for people.

Sister Rosemary took care of pregnant women and made sure their babies went to the doctor.”

The role of the Ursuline Sisters was critical to the success of Centro Latino, Paez said.

“The sisters only have good things to say about people,” Paez said. “Sister Fran is always positive and prayerful. They aren’t stuck in one field. They don’t say ‘I can’t try new things.’ Like Saint Angela, they saw what the needs of the time were, and worked to meet those needs. They did their spiritual duties and beyond.”

While lay people such as Caceres and Shreve have been essential, Centro Latino would not have happened without the Ursuline Sisters, Paez said.

“You couldn’t pay someone to do what Sister Fran does,” Paez said.

“It would not have worked Sister Fran Wilhelm, left, and Sister without the Rosemary Keough at their home at Ursuline Sisters Centro Latino in Owensboro. Sister Fran started the ministry to help Hispanics in behind it. Not 1992 at an old school beside St. Peter of just Sister Fran, Alcantara, Stanley, Ky. Sister Rosemary but the whole joined her in 1999. The ministry moved to community.” n Owensboro in 2000.

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Below is a myriad of scenes from the 46th Mount Saint Joseph Barbecue Picnic on Sept. 11. It was a wonderful day!

We look forward to seeing you at our future events.

Director receives Sister Darlene Make a Difference Award

Roxanna Trivitt, executive director of Shively Area Ministries, receives the Sister Darlene Award from Board Chair Rev. Larry Higginbotham.

Each September, the board of Shively Area Ministries in Louisville, Ky., selects a winner of the Sister Darlene Make a Difference Award to honor the late Ursuline Sister Darlene Denton and the work she did for 10 years with the ministry serving the poor. Sister Darlene, who died Sept. 5, 2011, “took risks, made things happen and was instrumental to help the ministry move to the next level.”

Sister Darlene worked very closely with Roxanna Trivitt, executive director of Shively Area Ministries.

Trivitt announced she was retiring to a sabbatical as of Sept. 30, after 20 years at the ministry in southwestern Louisville, so this year the board presented her with the award. This was said at the announcement: “Roxanna Trivitt has committed 20 years of her life to the growth and development of Shively Area Ministries. The fruits of her labor are obvious by the success of the organization fulfilling its mission ... responding in the spirit of Christ to persons in poverty and crisis ... uniting the community for service. We see the fruits of Roxanna’s labor but many do not see the depth of her passion for the mission, her compassion for our clients, her pastoral approach in leadership and decision making, her spiritual influence and other terrific traits too numerous to mention.”

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A Ministry of the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph

Give Peace, Quiet and Prayer a Chance

MISSION: Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center offers and hosts programs in a rural environment of tranquility for people of all ages and faiths to nurture spiritual and personal growth, advance the arts and promote lifelong learning.

Moretta Bosley, left, and Deb Price share a laugh as they confer over Price’s shawl pin at the Oct. 18-20 Chix with Stix knitting retreat. Bosley showed the women how to make shawl pins and decorative buttons.

From left, Ursuline Associate Martha Alle, Sister Joseph Angela Boone, Sister Ruth Gehres, Chris Kormelink, Joyce Kormelink and Sister George Mary Hagan listen as Sister Marietta Wethington presents “Discernment” to about 20 people at the Sept. 6 Evening with an Ursuline.

Jonathan Montaldo hands out some literature to Father Brian Roby, parish administrator of St. Mary of the Woods, Whitesville, Ky., and St. John the Baptist, Fordsville, Ky. Priests of the Diocese of Owensboro and the Diocese of Evansville, Ind., gathered from Oct. 11-14, 2016, for a retreat led

by Montaldo, an expert on Thomas Merton.

Joan Drake measures fabric for her snowman table runner. She was one of 19 members of the Trigg County (Ky.) Quilters Guild to make their yearly trip to the Mount from Oct. 24-28.

Trish Bishop holds the quilt she made for her 11-year-old granddaughter during the Sept.

19-23 Runaway Quilters retreat.

Trish lives near Columbus, Ohio, and has been coming to the retreat since 1998.

Teva Steeno of Glen Carbon, Ill., stands next to her valor quilt top she was piecing at the Runaway Quilters retreat.

Valor quilts are made for veterans upon request.

The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest Choir Camp, from the St. Francis DeSales Oratory in St. Louis, returned to the Center Aug. 8-12 for their seventh year of music camp. Youths from 10-17 can participate in the camp to learn church music, and members come from all over the country. The members performed for the Ursuline Sisters in Saint Joseph Villa on Aug. 11.

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This “Therapy in Session” quilt summed up many thoughts of the women who gathered in the gymnasium for the “sit and sew” during the September Runaway Quilters retreat.

Sue Gibbons, right, listens to Sister Eva Boone at the Nov. 1 Evening with an Ursuline. Presenter Sister George Mary Hagan brought “Thomas Merton” to life.

The Green River Teen Leadership Conference celebrated its 25th anniversary Nov. 3-4 at the Center. A total of 77 teenagers from eight high schools in the Green River area participated.

Schedule your next event at The purpose is to engage sophomores and Mount Saint Joseph! Call juniors in developing substance abuse Kathy McCarty: 270-229-0206 prevention programs in their schools.

From the Director...

Thanksgiving should be year-round event Dear Friends of the Retreat Center, I write this as November approaches, and I begin to be aware of Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving makes me aware of gratitude. Gratitude is an everyday happening in my life. The need to be thankful for God, for people, for events, for things is all somehow tied together with a big golden bow with a cluster of Sister Mary pumpkins and squash. It seems to me that Matthias gratitude is connected to the call of being joyful. Pope Francis has challenged us to be joyful people. I ask us, do we check daily to see if gratitude is on our radar?

When I look at being grateful I do believe that being grateful makes for better health. One feels better, perhaps sleeps better and maybe has a better immune system. One can be grateful for family, for church, for faith, for vacation and for a job, but one also can be grateful for less pain, grateful for a morning cup of coffee. It doesn’t take something big to cause us to be grateful; we can be grateful for small things, such as a smile, a hello.

For more than a year I’ve kept a gratitude journal. Each morning I am aware of at least five things for which I need to be grateful. I write them in my journal. Before I write each morning I read what I wrote the day before and ask myself was I, am I, aware of being grateful?

I am grateful for each person who comes to the Retreat Center, for each person who helps in any way at the Center, for those many people who really do care that there is a place for them to come aside, to be still, and rest with their God. I am grateful that the Diocese of Owensboro and our Bishop Medley support us. Gratitude puts into perspective all I overlook, all I take for granted.

Gratitude is a year around attitude, not just a November event … not just a Thanksgiving expression. I thank you for helping to make Mount Saint Joseph Center so special, indeed a place where gratitude is plentiful. Come, enjoy it.

In loving Gratitude,

Sister Mary Matthias Ward Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center

Shopping for the holidays?

Visit the Mount Saint Joseph Gift Shop! You can find a variety of unique gifts and religious items.

Open Wednesdays & Thursdays 10 a.m.-2 p.m. or by appointment. Contact Cyndi Madi: 270-229-4103 ext. 818 giftshop@maplemount.org

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Called by Name: Jesus and the Unnamed Women of the Gospels

SPRING WOMEN’S RETREAT

Weekend of March 10-12, 2017 Led by Sister Cheryl Clemons Fee: $180 (Commuters $130) Take 10 percent off if paid in full by Feb. 10.

The gospels indicate that many women were part of Jesus’ life; however, most of them remained unnamed. Retreatants will walk along the dusty roads of Gospel lands and reflect on the power and mystery of being named. They will listen for the voice of God calling their own name.

“Joy of Love” Book Discussion YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

These “Focus on Faith” monthly classes in 2017 will be based on the Apostolic Exhortation, “The Joy of Love,” by Pope Francis.

THURSDAYS: Jan. 19, Feb. 16, March 9, April 13, May 11, June 8, Aug. 10, Sept. 14, Oct. 12, Nov. 9, Dec. 14

10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

The $20 fee per class includes lunch.

Evening with an Ursuline Dinner/ Presentation First Tuesday of each month – 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

The $20 fee includes dinner.

Jan. 3...... Sister Rose Marita O’Bryan, OSU “Exploring Teilhard de Chardin’s Universal Vision of Life” Feb. 7...... Sister Ruth Gehres, OSU “Language: Gift and Mystery” March 7.. Sister Vivian Bowles, OSU “Belief and Expectation” April 4.... Sister Amelia Stenger, OSU “The Environment and Our Health” May 2..... Sister Mary Matthias Ward, OSU “Mary, the Mother of God, the Mother of the Church” June 6 ... Sister Ann McGrew, OSU

“Mandalas” July 11...Sister Marietta Wethington, OSU “Centering Prayer” Aug. 1 Sister Ann McGrew, OSU “Lectio Divina” To register for Center events, contact Kathy McCarty: 270-229-0206 or kathy.mccarty@maplemount.org 9

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By Dan Heckel, Mount Saint Joseph Staff

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hen Ursuline Sister Mary Matthias Ward became the first director of the Mount Saint Joseph Retreat Center in 1983, the Center had quickly been changed from Mount Saint Joseph Academy, which had closed three months earlier.

A major renovation of the Center occurred in the mid-1990s, including a new façade and entryway, and the addition of a Memorial Garden came in 1999. The Rosary Walk was created in 2006.

Sister Mary Matthias, who returned as director of the Center in May 2016, has challenged members of the new Center Advisory Board to reimagine what the Center can be and how it can serve God’s people.

Below are her responses to the question “How would I envision a retreat house if I were opening one today?”

We’d also like your thoughts on that question. For those of you who have visited the Retreat Center, or perhaps want to visit, please share with us what you would hope the Center could offer.

Perhaps it is an addition to the facility, or maybe it’s a type of programming?

Regardless, please share your thoughts on how to make our Retreat Center an even more inviting place for spirituality. The contact information is included in the box.

Sister Mary Matthias’ vision for the Center

With some retreat houses being closed today, some being changed into low-income housing projects, I feel and believe there is a great need to have places “to get away … to be still and know that I am God.” I would dare to say there is a greater need than ever for this. People are hungering for the divine. The divine is encountered in silence, with people, through reading scripture, sharing faith stories, walking in nature and communing with our God. If today I heard God’s voice say to me: “Build me a retreat house,” my plans would begin immediately.

I would have a two-story retreat house. The basement would house the kitchen and dining room areas; the first

floor would house the chapel, the conference room, the breakout rooms, the administrative offices; the second floor would house the bedrooms.

The outside grounds would have the rosary walk and the memorial gardens – and I would add a labyrinth, an early church form of prayer. Also I would want the Way of the Cross woven in and through the grounds. I would utilize all the shrines on the grounds by having audio recordings available for the pilgrimage to the shrines, as well as a recorded Way of the Cross. Individuals could pray on their own in whatever form they wished while outside.

I would want the plants and flowers to be as maintenance-free as possible. But I would want to hire a gardener who could also serve as an extra housekeeper or kitchen worker.

Sixty bedrooms would each have two twin beds that could easily be moved together for couples. Each room would have its own bathroom and shower. The main conference room would accommodate 300 people, plus four breakout rooms accommodating 30 people. Lots of storage space would be available. All tables would be round, both in the dining room and in the conference rooms.

The gift shop would be a separate entity from the retreat house but would service both the retreat house and the public. An Ursuline Sister could be the director while other sisters could sell jellies, cookies, candies, and other craft items.

My retreat house would be the Mount Saint Joseph Retreat and Conference Center. n

“What ideas do you have to make the Retreat Center an even more inviting and fulfilling spiritual experience?”

Please contact Sister Mary Matthias Ward by email at mary.ward@maplemount.org or you can write her at: 8001 Cummings Road, Maple Mount, KY 42356

Office of Spiritual Life for the Diocese of Owensboro Did you know that a community post office was established at Maple Mount in 1934?

Located near the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center, it is open to the public from 10 a.m.-noon Monday through Saturday.

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Sister Helen elected new Ursuline Council member Ursuline Sister Helen Smith was elected as the newest member of the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph Leadership Council on Nov. 5, 2016.

Sister Helen, who previously served as assistant superior of the Sister Helen Ursuline Sisters of Paola, Kan., prior Smith to that community’s 2008 merger with Mount Saint Joseph, fills a Council position created by the Sept. 5, 2016, death of her longtime friend Sister Kathleen Condry.

Sister Kathleen took office as assistant congregational leader on July 17, 2016, but her health quickly failed. At the special election on Nov. 5, Sister Pat Lynch, who took office as a councilor on July 17, was elected as the new assistant congregational leader. Sister Helen will assume Sister Pat’s position as a councilor. She was officially installed shortly after the election.

Since October 2010, Sister Helen has handled sacramental preparation work with children and teenagers at the Church of the Nativity in Leawood, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City. She plans to complete her ministry there in May 2017, and in the interim will meet with the other Council members via the Internet.

Prior to the merger, Sister Helen was responsible for the buildings and grounds at Paola. Sister Helen remained in Paola following the merger awaiting the sale of the convent property, which has yet to occur. Sister Kathleen, who was superior at the time of the merger, also remained in Paola.

Sister Helen Smith, right, Sister Helen grew up smiles along with Sister in Bartlesville, Okla., just Judith Nell Riney during Community Days in July at across the Kansas state line.

Mount Saint Joseph. Sister She met the Ursuline Sisters Judith Nell is also on the when she attended St. John Leadership Council.

Catholic School, which the Ursulines of Paola started in Bartlesville.

Sister Helen attended Ursuline Academy, the boarding school run by the sisters in Paola. She joined the Ursulines after graduating from the Academy in 1964. She became a novice in January 1965, and was scheduled to make her temporary vows in January 1967, but she suddenly felt uncertain, and decided to leave the community that month.

She became a teacher, and in 1972 began teaching fourth grade at Queen of the Holy Rosary in Overland Park, Kan., where Ursulines taught. She taught there as a lay person until 1979. Leaving the Ursuline community

had been such a difficult thing for her to do, she told herself she would not consider returning without something monumental happening, she said in her 2011 Sister in Ministry article.

“Sister Aurelia Sullivan was a good friend of mine, she always thought I’d done the right thing in leaving,” Sister Helen said in 2011. “One day I got a letter from her saying, ‘Have you ever thought about coming back?’

Her change in attitude was that monumental event and I began thinking about returning.”

Sister Helen was also concerned about her mother because her father had died. Her mother told her she was considering moving in with Sister Helen’s brother, so another barrier was removed.

“Then I talked to the community leadership and they told me that I would be welcomed back with open arms,” Sister Helen said. “They even decided I had completed the novitiate experience, and prepared a re-entry process for me instead.” She re-entered the Ursulines on Aug. 15, 1979, still teaching at Queen of the Holy Rosary. She will celebrate 40 years as an Ursuline Sister in 2017.

Sister Helen was a teacher or principal in Kansas until 2005. From 1990-98 she was an elected Council member in Paola, and was elected again in 2002 and 2006. The last time she served as assistant superior.

She joins a Council that includes Sister Amelia Stenger as congregational leader, Sister Pat as assistant congregational leader, and Sisters Pam Mueller and Judith Nell Riney as councilors.n

Sister Pat is new Assistant Congregational Leader Sister Pat Lynch was elected to the 2016-2022 Ursuline Leadership Council when elections were held at the end of 2015. As of Nov. 5 when a new election took place, she has officially been named the assistant congregational leader. She Sister Pat is taking the place of the late Sister Lynch Kathleen Condry in that role. Both were former Ursuline Sisters of Paola, Kan. From 2009-16, Sister Pat served as office manager/ campus minister at the Didde Catholic Campus Center at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kan. From 1987-94, she was an outreach minister at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center in Lawrence, Kan., on the campus of the University of Kansas.

She left there when she was elected superior of her community. She was elected again as a councilor in 2002. Her past ministries include work as a speech pathologist (1974-81).

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Soli Deo Gloria:

We rejoice in the gifts of our sisters, given for the kingdom of God

Sister Mary Matthias Ward was among three people honored Oct. 28 as Distinguished Alumni of Brescia University in Owensboro, Ky., the eighth Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph to receive the prestigious honor. She was honored for her varied ministry career during her 62 years as an Ursuline Sister.

Sister Mary Matthias has been a teacher, principal, leader of Sister Mary Matthias the Ursuline community, retreat Ward holds her framed medallion after being director, campus minister and honored as one of the director of community life at Distinguished Alumni the Motherhouse. In May 2016 of Brescia University in she returned to one of her loves Owensboro on Oct. 28. as director of the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center.

The Distinguished Alumni Award is the highest award the university bestows and is the only award that Brescia University bestows upon its alumni. The Ursuline Sisters established Brescia College in 1950, and nine Ursuline Sisters continue to minister there. The Distinguished Alumni Award honors those graduates who exemplify the elements that encompass The Brescia Difference: Respect for the Sacred, Devotion to Learning, Commitment to Growth in Virtue, and Promotion of Servant Leadership.

Because of the breadth and scope of their life’s work, the magnitude of their impact on the regional, national and often international scene and their examples of service and leadership, alumni who receive this esteemed honor have distinguished themselves among their peers and demonstrated that they are true stars of Brescia.

Ursuline Sister Larraine Lauter received the award in 2015. Previous Ursuline honorees are Sister Vivian Bowles, Sister Ruth Gehres, Sister Michele Morek, Sister Joseph Angela Boone, Sister Rose Marita O’Bryan and Sister Dianna Ortiz. Ursuline Associate Mary Danhauer also received the award.

Sister Mary Matthias is a 1966 Brescia graduate, but like all Ursuline Sisters of her day, she took a circuitous route to that degree. She joined the Ursulines as a postulant in 1953 and was considered a Brescia College student, even though all her classes were taught by the Ursuline Sisters at the Motherhouse in Maple Mount. She would continue attending Brescia on Saturdays or during the summer for 10 years, earning a bachelor’s degree in history in 1966. She was truly a “nontraditional student” before that term existed.

Sister Mary Diane Taylor was honored during Brescia University’s Alumni Homecoming on Oct. 29 by having a building named in her honor. Sister Mary Diane, an

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art professor at Brescia since 1967, was recognized with retiring associate professor of English David Bartholomy.

The Administration building at Brescia will now be known as Bartholomy-Taylor Hall.

Sister Mary Diane also serves as chair of the Division of Fine Arts. She is a 1964 graduate of Brescia with a degree in art. The two professors were honored for a combined 102 years of service to Brescia.

Sister Mary Diane Taylor and David Bartholomy hold the plaque proclaiming that the Brescia University Administration building will now be known as Bartholomy-Taylor Hall.

Sister Barbara Jean Head is the new Ursuline representative on the board of UNANIMA International, a nongovernmental organization advocating on behalf of women and children living in poverty, immigrants and refugees, and the environment. She will serve a three-year term, replacing Sister Dianna Ortiz. Among the 21 congregations represented on the board are sisters from Australia, Rome, Lagos Africa, and Canada. “The meetings were most inspiring, informative, and a very international experience,” Sister Barbara Jean said. She is senior accountant at Brescia University in Owensboro, and served as an elected councilor for the Ursulines (2004-10).

Her first board meeting was the last for Ursuline Sister Michele Morek, who has served as coalition coordinator for UNANIMA since 2011 and is stepping down at the end of the year. “I was thrilled and privileged to be at this meeting where they roasted Sister Michele,” Sister Barbara Jean said. “They played on her humor, enthusiastic personality, and many accomplishments. It was truly evident that they all love her dearly and feel blessed to work with her. I am so proud of all she has done working with the United Nations. She has certainly made a positive difference in many lives and issues.”

The UNANIMA board met Sept. 22-24 in New York City. Sister Barbara Jean Head is in the second row, second from right.

Sister Michele Morek is in the front row, second from left.

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Powerhouse of Prayer

Sister Marie Brenda Vowels: “Jesus is my best friend”

By Dan Heckel, Mount Saint Joseph Staff

Like most people, Ursuline Sister Marie Brenda Vowels likes to spend time with her closest friends. That’s why she prays all four mysteries of the rosary every day, usually before lunch.

“Jesus is my best friend, and Mary too,” she said. “I also like the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. It’s a good prayer to say for someone who is dying.”

Sister Marie Brenda turned 90 in April, and is now in her 71st year as an Ursuline Sister. A former educator who spent many years teaching Native Americans in New Mexico, Sister Marie Brenda now lives in Saint Joseph Villa at the Motherhouse at Maple Mount. Her main mission is taking part in the Powerhouse of Prayer.

“I do feel there’s a power to prayer,” she said. “God is present. He’s with us all the time. God is important to us.”

Sister Marie Brenda grew up in the small town of Vine Grove, Ky., where she and her family of 11 siblings prayed morning and evening prayers together with her parents. “We prayed for the souls in purgatory and for family members,” she said.

Today she prays for everybody who asks for prayers

Sister Marie Brenda Vowels has a smile for a young visitor from Cathedral Preschool, Owensboro, on Holy Saturday, March 26, in Saint Joseph Villa.

directly, and those through the Ursuline prayer requests sent on email.

From 2-3 p.m. on Fridays, she attends holy hour in the Saint Joseph Villa chapel, where the sisters have exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and benediction. She attends centering prayer on Wednesdays. Daily she spends time in prayer with the scripture for Mass, and she has a brochure that allows her to pray the way of the cross daily as well, without actually sitting in front of each station.

With doctor’s orders to keep her feet elevated, Sister Marie Brenda often prays alone in her room, which – like all rooms in the Villa – is equipped with closed circuit TV connected with the Motherhouse Chapel. In this way she can be present for liturgy and prayer in the chapel. “I can pray the (Divine) Office with the sisters on TV and take communion in the hallway,” she said. “I think the Lord understands.”

You can write to Sister Marie Brenda at 8001 Cummings Road, Maple Mount, KY 42356.

In the joy of eternal life SISTER KATHLEEN CONDRY, 66, died Sept. 5, at Mount Saint Joseph, in her 46th year of religious life. She was a native of Ottawa, Kan., but grew up in Kenner, La. Sister Kathleen was an Ursuline Sister of Paola, Kan., prior to the merger of that community with Mount Saint Joseph in 2008. She was superior in Paola from 2002 until the merger, and had previously served 16 years in community leadership (1982-90, 1994-2002). She was elected as assistant congregational leader for the Ursulines of Mount Saint Joseph in December 2015, and was installed in office July 17, 2016.

She was renowned in Kansas for her leadership skills as an educator, serving as a teacher, principal and administrator at several schools and assistant superintendent for leadership and mission for the Archdiocesan Education Office, Kansas City, Kan. (1998-2002). From 2009-2016, she served in pastoral ministry for the Church of the Nativity in Leawood, Kan. What people will always remember about Sister Kathleen is her sense of humor, her ability to make others feel accepted and loved, and her great spirituality. Survivors include two sisters, Ellen Mary Condry of Belle Chasse, La., and Patricia Frelich of Carriere, Miss.; nieces, a nephew and the members of her religious community. The funeral Mass was Sept. 8 at Mount Saint Joseph, with burial in the convent cemetery.

SISTER MARY RAYMOND DIECKMAN, 84, died Oct. 27, at Mount Saint Joseph, in her 66th year of religious life. She was a native of Kansas City, Kan. Sister Raymond was an Ursuline Sister of Paola, Kan., prior to the merger of that community with Mount Saint Joseph. She was nicknamed “Mighty Mouse” for her small stature but huge impact on all those to whom she ministered. She was a teacher and principal at schools in Kansas and Oklahoma, and served 22 years in leadership, including eight years as superior of the Ursulines of Paola (1974-82). Survivors include her sister, Betty DuPont of Paola, Kan., nieces and nephews and the members of her religious community.

The funeral Mass was Oct. 31 at Mount Saint Joseph, with burial in the convent cemetery.

Gifts in memory of a sister may take the form of donations to the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph, 8001 Cummings Road, Maple Mount, KY 42356

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Vocations

Ursuline Sister Monica Seaton begins her journey as director of vocation ministry When Ursuline Sister Monica Seaton was growing up, she thought priests and sisters were on a higher level than she was.

“That leads to a feeling of unworthiness,” Sister Monica said. “But that was seeing them from a distance. When you get to know a sister, you realize we’re human. You have to have that personal encounter.”

Finding opportunities for those “personal encounters” between sisters and women who may be called to religious life is now one of Sister Monica’s goals in her new role as director of Vocation Ministry for the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph.

“I don’t think there’s a lack of a call to religious life,” she said. “We need to let people know you don’t have to be a superhuman to be in religious life. We are ordinary people doing ordinary things in service to God’s people.”

Recent words by Pope Francis have become her mantra in vocation ministry: “Vocations aren’t the result of planning, but an encounter with God that changes your life.”

Sister Monica is a native of Owensboro, Ky., who is serving in her 14th year of religious life. She previously served as a special education teacher in Owensboro and Memphis, Tenn., and was religion coordinator at St. Patrick Catholic School in Memphis from 2013-15. From January to June this year she was assistant to the vicar of religious and director of catechesis for the Diocese of Memphis before returning to Maple Mount.

Making the switch to vocation ministry was a mutual decision between Sister Monica and the new leadership Council for the Ursuline Sisters.

“I think with the new leadership, this is a pivotal point in our community and our history,” Sister Monica said.

“Vocation ministry is about our relationship with God, and how we help others deepen their relationship and love for God. How can we help them to discern their own vocation?”

Sister Amelia Stenger, congregational leader for the Ursuline Sisters, said Sister Monica is energetic and

has a strong commitment to the Ursuline community, two important qualities for a vocation director.

Sister Monica likened a vocation director to a companion on a journey with someone who may be feeling a call to religious life.

“You help them to listen to Sister Monica those inner stirrings where God is leading you,” she said. “Someone to see things we may not see when looking at ourselves.”

Sister Monica believes having Sister Stephany Nelson as a novice these days will be an added benefit, to serve as an example that women do still hear the call to religious life and answer it.

Her early months on the job involve learning from previous vocation ministers and other religious communities. Sister Monica attended the National Religious Vocation Conference Convocation in Overland Park, Kan., Oct. 27-31, 2016, and hopes to attend an orientation for vocation directors next summer.

In the meantime, she knows being visible and approachable is her first step.

“If I were a kid selling lemonade, I’d put the lemonade stand in the front yard, not hide it in the back yard,” Sister Monica said. “We have to look for ways to reach people.”

She is participating in campus ministry at Brescia University with Sister Pam Mueller, and visited two schools in Memphis during National Vocation Awareness Week, Nov. 6-12.

“I want to go to schools and youth groups in Owensboro,” she said. “If you want a speaker, let me know.”

To reach Sister Monica, email her at vocations.msj@ maplemount.org or call her at 270-229-4103, ext. 218.

To learn more about the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph, visit ursulinesmsj.org.

The Council of Religious for the Diocese of Owensboro, Ky., honored women religious celebrating jubilees of religious profession at an Oct. 22 prayer service at St. Martin Church, Owensboro. LEFT: From left, Sisters Martha Keller (40th), George Mary Hagan (60th) and Ruth Mattingly (60th) joined Bishop William Medley after Mass. RIGHT: Sister Mary Irene Cecil (70th) smiles after being congratulated by the bishop. Sister Susanne Bauer (65th) was also presented with a certificate.

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Dear Friends, We are blessed because of you!

We are thankful for what the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph are able to do with these blessings. There is no way of knowing how many people the sisters have touched through their ministries; the ministries you help support. With sisters who serve as teachers and a Catholic school superintendent, the number of children influenced in one year is in the thousands.

Our Retreat Center serves over 3,700 people a year, and with sisters serving others living in poverty, it’s easy to see there are thousands of people who have been helped by the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph.

The holiday season helps us to reflect and be thankful for all the gifts and blessings we’ve received over the past year. The season reminds us of all the good things God has done for us, and it gives us hope for all the good things that FOUNDERS...............$25,000+ Anonymous Ms. Martha Maloney

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God will do in the future. Make sure you take time to stop and reflect on all the wonderful ways you’ve helped others.

Be thankful that God has given you the ability to do your part in collaboration with this wonderful community of Ursuline Sisters. The Ursuline Sisters and staff want to say “thank you.” Thank you for sharing the sisters’ mission and vision and for your continuous support. The sisters are so grateful and thankful for you.

Here are the names of those who have given gifts over the past fiscal year (July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016).

It’s amazing to look over these pages and see all the names.

To think about all those who support the sisters through donations, volunteering time, prayers, and so much more … Wow, what an amazing network of friends and families the sisters have. Thank you and God Bless, Betsy Jo F. Mullins, Director of Development P.S. If any information is incorrect, we are sorry. Please call 270-229-2008 or email betsy.mullins@maplemount.org.

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Mr. and Mrs. Neil J. Kallman Ms. Rise Danielle Karr Mr. and Mrs. William H. Kastens Ms. Mari Lynn Korte Knights of Columbus – John Roe Council 3020 Mrs. Dotty Liles Ms. Sarah Jane Lynch Mr. Timothy B. Mahoney Mr. and Mrs. James P. Maxwell American Century Investments Foundation | Ms. Michelle Maxwell Mr. and Mrs. John Medley Mr. and Mrs. R. Meeker Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Steve and Becky Morris Mrs. Delia Jean Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Henry Munsterman Church of the Nativity Mrs. Alice M. Noble-Allgire Christopher and Della Oberst Mr. and Mrs. Patrick and Carol O’Keefe Orthopaedic Surgical Specialists PSC | Drs. Joseph and Felicity Polio Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Pello Sam Pennington Mr. and Mrs. Mike Pontarolo Mr. and Mrs. Merwin J. Ray Mr. and Mrs. Greg L. Reis Mrs. Susan Reiss Mr. and Mrs. David Riney Marianna Robinson Mr. Martin Rockers Jean Simpson Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Scherman Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew A. Schieber Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Schlicher Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Shortell D.D.S. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Smith Mrs. Susan Ann Struna, A’66 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Summers Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Taliaferro Ms. Joan Teder Mr. and Mrs. J. Grover Thomas Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. Thomson Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Thompson Mrs. Teresa B. Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Michael Townsend Mr. and Mrs. Otis Vance Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Waris Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Whelan Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Gene Wink Kathleen M. Wood Ms. Mary E. Ziegler Mr. and Mrs. David Zimmerman

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Mrs. Mary E. Heininger Mr. and Mrs. Larry Henderson Mr. and Mrs. Daryl and Phyllis Henry Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hobbs Mr. and Mrs. David Hock Mr. George A. Hollander Mrs. Emily H. Holloway Mr. and Mrs. Doug and Dorothy Hood Carroll Howard Gerald G. Hubbs Ms. Bonnie Hubert Ms. Eloise Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Craig Humphrey Fr. Francis Hund Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Jacobs Ms. Amanda Jacobs Barbara C. St. John Mrs. Benita Payne Jolly, A‘52 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Jongenelen Saint Henry Parish | Rev. Babu Kulathumkal Joseph Mr. and Mrs. Waitman Taylor, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Kaelin Monica Armstrong and Donald Kapa Mr. and Mrs. James Edwin Kee Mrs. Catherine Keene Mr. and Mrs. Scott Keith Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Kellerman Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Kemper Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. King Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Kleinman Ms. Linda Knight Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kobler Bernice and Mary Ann Kollros Mr. Raymond Kress Mr. and Mrs. John Allen Ms. Charlotte K. Jones, DMD Msgr. Vincent E. Krische Mr. and Mrs. Robert and Mary Ann Alvey Ms. Ann Doss Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Kure Mr. and Mrs. Jim and Peggy Alvey Ms. Mary Margaret Drury, A‘66 John and Bobbie Laker Mr. and Mrs. Frank Anasti Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Durbin Mr. and Mrs. Werner S. Lehnert Mr. and Mrs. Dan W. and Claudia W. Mr. Thomas M. Durkin Ms. Margaret B. Leibson Anderson Mr. Charles P. Easley Mr. Michael H. Leonard American Enterprise Investment Mr. and Mrs. Rick Ebelhar Mary Limardo Services, Inc. Mrs. Mary C. Elder Lorraine Luken Mr. Paul R. Bachi Ms. Diane M. Erickson Mr. Joseph C. Malone Ms. Mignon Backstrom Ms. Clara Mae Evrard Mr. and Mrs. Neil Manias Mr. and Mrs. Richard Baldwin Mr. and Mrs. Joe Falco Ms. Stephanie Warren and Sue Batman New Haven Foodland | Mr. Chester Mr. and Mrs. Jim Martin Mr. James D. Martin Mr. and Mrs. James Beaven Simms Family Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Marx Mary M. Benkeser Ms. Grace Fasano Richard J. Massoth and Susan T. Masih Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Berry Mr. and Mrs. John R. 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Mr. George A. Hollander Ms. Bonnie Hubert Mr. and Mrs. Martin McElroy Mr. and Mrs. Steve and Becky Morris Mr. Allen Muehlher Mr. and Mrs. Robert Neath Mr. Brad Nevois Ms. Diana M. Oechsli Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ratzki Mr. and Mrs. John Royster Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Stonecipher Ms. Lisa Thompson Sr. Marie Claire DavisU Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Egan Sr. Darlene DentonU Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Harris Jr. Billy Ray Edelen Mr. and Mrs. Bernard and Elaine Boone Mrs. Margaret Edelen Mr. and Mrs. George Leo Greenwell Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Mudd Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mudd Mrs. Shirley Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Taylor Sister Mary FidesU Mrs. Clara J. Wheatley Sr. Anita Flaugher, OSUU Mr. and Mrs. Don Oberhausen Jodie FulkersonU Ms. Sandy Stahl Mary and Bernard GoetzU Saint Alphonsus Parish Ms. Mary E. (Blandford) GoetzU Mr. Bill Blandford Mr. and Mrs. Dan Brass Mr. and Mrs. Robert Crowe Mr. Steve Goetz Mr. and Mrs. Tony Goetz Mr. and Mrs. Larry Goetz Mr. and Mrs. Gary Hartle Mr. and Mrs. James Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Don Kelley Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. King Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Storc Mr. and Mrs. William K. Swinford Mr. and Mrs. Terry Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Wink Irene GonsalvesU Mr. Robert F. Gonsalves Ruby E. HarbinU Mr. and Mrs. William and Phyllis O’Dea Mary Frances HaydenU Mr. Ronald Beyke Mr. and Mrs. Tony Clark Ms. Lisa Clary Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Ebelhar Ms. Kandi Gilbreath Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C. Goetz Mrs. Charlotte Hedges Hendrix & Steigner Mr. and Mrs. Joe Higdon Mr. and Mrs. Brent Mallory Mr. and Mrs. Paul V. Payne Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Sparks Ms. Carrie Wieder Sr. Raphael HaydenU Mrs. Mary Louise Hayden Sr. Charles Irene HaydenU Ms. Karen Hayden, A‘69 Margaret “Peggy” HowardU Carroll Howard Sr. Mary Eileen HowardU Ms. Betty Moorman, A‘58 Mary Jane KahlerU Ms. Mignon Backstrom Mr. and Mrs. David Branch Ms. Julia F. Crago Ms. Debbie Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. Jerry L. Johnson Ms. Sherry Kittinger Mr. and Mrs. Jim Medford Owensboro Catholic Schools (4-6) Mr. and Mrs. Gary Phillips Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Robak Jr. Ms. Doris Waldeck Sr. Jamesetta KnottU Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Knott Sr. Mary Mercedes KnottU Patricia Knott and Charles C. Knott Norman “Norm” KoesterU Sr. Angela Fitzpatrick, OSU

Mrs. Catherine “Kitty” KressU Mr. Raymond Kress Sr. Annalita LancasterU Mr. and Mrs. James D. McCoy Sr. Rita LavigneU Mr. and Mrs. David G. Allen Edna Mae Cogswell and Michael J. Carsten, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Gabbert Mrs. Marilee Hanshew Sr. Mary Elizabeth Krampe, OSU Mr. Harry J. Lavigne Mr. James D. Martin Mr. and Mrs. William M. Stolte Stella MaupinU Ms. Jill Luckett Sr. Mary Celeste McCueU Ms. Marilyn Doherty Ms. Robertine Sweny Marie MuethU Creason Funeral Service Ms. Winifred P. Cress Mr. Mark A. Forcade Mr. and Mrs. R. Meeker Ms. Lois A. Orlet Mr. and Mrs. Michael Romano Mr. Randall L. Sayre Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schilling Kathy Steckler Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Steppig Deacon Richard J. MuraskiU Ursuline Sisters Mary Jane Hardesty NalleyU James Nalley, M.D. Elizabeth O’BryanU Mr. and Mrs. David Blanford Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Clark Mr. Paul C. Edge and Family Mr. and Mrs. Gary M. Estes Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hagman Mr. and Mrs. Les Howard Ms. Mary H. Nash New Haven Foodland Cletus and Dee Oberst Marianna Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Werne Mary OffermanU Mr. Joseph Offerman Sr. Carolyn Marie O’HarrowU Bill and Marilyn Terry Nicholas Francis PattiU Mrs. Rita Patti Delores PfannesU Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Grabill Sr. Helen Marie PfohlU Carolyn and Paul Tapp Rose Marie PorsborgU Mr. and Mrs. Dan W. and Claudia W. Anderson Nadine PossU Mr. Donald E. Poss Mae Jean RayneU Mr. William E. Rayne Joseph C. RineyU Sr. Martha Keller, OSU Bernice RockersU Dengel & Son Mortuary Mr. and Mrs. Ned L. Kelsey Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Morgison Ms. Catherine Ann Schaukowitch Sr. Joseph Adrian RussellU Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Smith Sr. Mary Henry RussellU Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Smith Mary Patricia SchecherU Mr. and Mrs. William E. Schecher Thomas W. and Connie ScofieldU Sr. Angela Fitzpatrick, OSU Mr. James Scofield Frank Shadler Jr.U Mr. Jeffrey Wernert Joyce StengerU Mr. and Mrs. A. Mike Thompson Mark SwiftU Robin Swift Sr. Rose Marie ThompsonU Mrs. Clara J. Wheatley William J. Ulrich IIIU Elaine Ulrich Sr. Dorothy Ann WhelanU Mr. and Mrs. George Briel

Sr. Mary Emily WhelanU Mr. and Mrs. George Briel Joseph WingenbachU Fr. Gregory Wingenbach Mary Ann WingenbachU Fr. Gregory Wingenbach Mrs. Helen Woodward, A49U Mr. Rudy Woodward

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Thanks and Blessings to All!

Sowing Seeds of Faith

Saturday, April 29, 2017 SAVE THE DATE! Inspired by the Ursuline Sisters’ love for God’s green earth and the importance of sowing seeds of faith every day, the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph are partnering with the city of Owensboro to reforest a park in Daviess County, Ky. On April 29, 2017, the city of Owensboro, with the help of the Ursuline Sisters and their supporters, will be hosting an Arbor Day event.

The trees planted that day are in honor of the Ursuline Sisters’ supporters who donate $100 or more to this year’s Annual Appeal, “Sowing Seeds of Faith.” Please make your donation of $100 or more by Jan. 20, 2017, to ensure that a tree in your honor is planted on April 29.

In the words of Congregational Leader Sister Amelia Stenger, “The Ursuline Sisters believe that trees are special gifts to us – without them there is no life. Thank you for helping us save a small piece of our world and for supporting our community as we continue our mission of education and Christian formation.”

More details to come regarding this event ... We’d love for you to come celebrate with us, so mark your calendars for April 29. The trees are a symbol of your role in the sisters’ missions – they both will grow because of you!

Have you returned your Sowing Seeds of Faith card?

If you did not receive an annual appeal letter in the mail, contact Betsy Mullins at 270-229-2008 or betsy.mullins@maplemount.org or go to this online link: www.ursulinesmsj.org/help-the-sisters 19

8001 Cummings Road Maple Mount, KY 42356-9999 270-229-4103 www.ursulinesmsj.org info.msj@maplemount.org With a QR code reader on your smartphone, this goes to our website.

The Blessing of a Planned Gift The late Maya Angelou said, “I’ve learned that Sarah died in 2008, leaving people will forget what you said, people will forget what her husband to carry out her you did, but people will never forget how you made wishes. Dan died in 2015, at them feel.” age 83, and when his estate Through more than 100 years in the ministry of was settled in 2016, the teaching, the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph Ursuline Sisters received a very have always strived to be more than instructors to their generous bequest. The Lehans’ students. The hallmark of an Ursuline education has two adopted sons preceded long been attention to the sacredness them in “I hope I have left some of the individual, of being present to death, so Daniel and Sarah Lehan good example. I hope I have students wherever they are in their they left recognized the mission God academic and personal lives. much of their wealth to the charities Perhaps that attention inspired gave me in life. I hope I have that meant so much to them.

Sarah Anne Lanham Lehan. Sarah Dan grew up in Louisville and served my husband and the was born in 1923 and grew up in graduated from Flaget Memorial people I have encountered Springfield, Ky., in the central part of High School. He served in the U.S. along the path of life.” the state. Her godmother was Sister Navy during World War II and was –Note written by Sarah Lehan Lorenze McIntire, a Dominican who an electrician for over 38 years for was her maternal aunt. Sarah was taught many years by Louisville Gas & Electric until his retirement in 1992.

Dominican Sisters, said her cousin, Flo Barber (who Dan volunteered his time at Our Lady of Lourdes was named after Sarah’s mother, Florence). During her Church in Louisville, and also on the church grounds. formative years Sarah also became impressed by the The Lehans were steady donors to the Ursuline Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph, who taught Sisters through the years, but by including the Ursulines at Holy Trinity School in nearby Fredericktown, from in their will, they realized how much of an impact they 1916-78. Sarah graduated from St. Catharine Junior could make even after they arrived in heaven.

Perhaps you would like to consider naming the College in Springfield in 1943. For many years, she was Ursuline Sisters in your will? This generous gift helps a secretary for the Federal Housing Administration in the Ursuline Sisters continue to serve the people Louisville, Ky. of God’s kingdom, while also memorializing how “I moved from Springfield and lived with Sarah in significant a role the Ursulines played in your life.

Louisville during my senior year in high school,” Barber said. “We stayed in touch and she was very close to me If you would like information on setting up a and my mother.” planned gift with the Ursuline Sisters, contact Betsy After dating several years, Sarah and Dan Lehan Mullins, Director of Development, 270-229-2008 or married on April 15, 1967, at St. Rose Church in betsy.mullins@maplemount.org.

Springfield. They were married for over 41 years.

The Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph wish you a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!